The Latest Breaking News from Burkina Faso

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended its operations in an area of northwest Burkina Faso where armed assailants killed two of its employees on Wednesday, the medical charity said in a statement.

At least nine people were killed when an artisanal gold mine collapsed in Burkina Faso's western Tuy province on Tuesday, the head of the artisanal mining association for the province said.

Armed assailants killed at least 22 civilians and three police officers during an attack in northern Burkina Faso on Saturday, the interim government said on Monday.

Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso's junta leader, said his country has not severed diplomatic ties with France, despite asking it to withdraw its forces, and denied Russian Wagner mercenaries were in the country.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian began an official visit to Mauritania Tuesday accompanied by a high-ranking political delegation. Amir-Abdollahian is expected to meet with Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Ghazouani and Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Marzouk, announced a government-affiliated news agency in Iran. The source explained that the visit falls…

Suspected jihadists killed 13 people, most of them from the military, in the lastest such attack in Burkina Faso's restive north, the army said Tuesday.

Rebel fighters conducted separate attacks on Sunday and Monday, including 15 men killed after a minibus was stopped.

Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Saturday in support of the ruling junta, days after France confirmed its special forces there would withdraw.